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Timeline of the American Revolution
1733
Molasses Act
1754-1763
French and Indian War
1763
Proclamation of 1763
1764
Law passed which forbid the colonies from printing or using their won money
1765
Stamp Act
1767
Townshend Act
March 5, 1770
Soldiers kill five colonists in the Boston Massacre
December 16, 1773
The Boston Tea Party
September 5 -
October 26, 1774
First Continental Congress Met in Philadelphia
April 19, 1775
Battles of Concord and Lexington
May 10, 1775
Second Continental Congress Met in Philadelphia
May 10, 1775
Capture by Colonists of forts and arsenals at Ticonderoga
May 11, 1775
Battle of Crown Point - Green Mountain Boys & Ethan Allen attacked the British Fort Ticonderoga near Lake Champlain and won
June 15, 1775
Congress names George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Continintal Army
June 17, 1775
Battle of Bunker Hill
December 31, 1775
American army invaded Canada and tried to take Quebec but failed
January 1776
Thomas Paine published Common Sense
March 1776
Battle of Dorchesr Heights
July 4, 1776
Declaration of Independence
August 1776
Arrival of 30,000 British troops in New York harbor
August 27, 1776
Battle of Long Island - Americans defeated
September 16, 1776
Battle of Harlem Heights - Americans defeated
October 28, 1776
Battle of White Plains - Americans defeated
December 25 -
January 3, 1776-77
Crossing of the Delaware &
Battles of Trenton and Princeton, NJ - Americans win
1777
Winter Quarters at Princeton
July 5, 1777
Ticonderoga captured by the British
September 19-October 7, 1777
Battle of Saratoga, NY - Americans win
October 17, 1777
Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga
September 11, 1777
Battle of Brandywine - Americans defeated
October 4, 1777
Battle of Germantown - Americans retreat
December19, 1777
Encampment at Valley Forge for the Winter.
February 6, 1768
Ben Franklin incourages France to sign an alliance with the United States
June 19, 1778
Evacuation of Valley Forge Winter Quarters.
June 28, 1778
Battle of Monmouth
December 29, 1778
Savannah taken by the British
1779
Lafayette goes to France to plead for help
September 1779
John Paul Jones's Bonhomme Richard captures the British Serapis
May 12, 1780
Charlestown, SC taken by the British
August 16, 1780
Gates defeated by Cornwallis near Camden, South Carolina.
September 23, 1780
Benedict Arnold's plot to surrender West Point frustrated.
October 7, 1780
King's Mountain - British defeated
1780
Rochambeau arrives in America with 5,500 men.
1781
Powerful French fleet under deGrasse arrives - Block Britrish naveal force in Chesapeake Bay
January 17, 1781
Cowpens - British defeated
March 15, 1781
Guilford Court House - Americans defeated
1781
Greene clears interior of South Carolina and Georgia of the enemy
October 19, 1781
Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
November 30, 1782
Provisional Peace
September 3, 1783
Treaty of Peace of Paris


American Revolution Pictures